Claude Tousignant

Claude Tousignant OC RCA (born December 23, 1932, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian artist.

[1] Tousignant is considered to be an important contributor to the development of geometric abstraction in Canada.

[1] From 1948 to 1951, he attended the School of Art and Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts where he studied under Arthur Lismer, Louis Archambault, Marian Dale Scott, Jacques de Tonnancour and Gordon Webber.

[5] Tousignant is considered a member of the second generation of the modern art movement in Montreal called "les Plasticiens".

[6][2] This group of four painters (Jean-Paul Jérôme, Louis Belzile, Rodolphe de Repentigny (Jauran) and Fernand Toupin) felt painting should be pure form and colour; meaning and spontaneous expression were to be avoided.